The two most visited Glaciers in the Wrangell area include Chief Shakes Glacier located on the Stikine River and Le Conte Glacier, the southern most tidewater glacier in North America. Both glaciers, along with dozens of others are part of the Stikine icefelds located in the Stikine/Le Conte Wilderness of the Tongass National Forest and the Stikine Wilderness of British Columbia, Canada. Shakes Glacier, located on the magnificent Stikine River is located in a narrow fjord known as Shakes Lake. The glacier is actively calving, with huge chunks of ice breaking off the face and falling into the lake, sometimes clogging the mouth of the lake with azure blue ice. It is an awe inspiring view of the glacier, steep waterfalls tumbling down rock slopes and cliffs with wildflowers blooming along the shoreline. A boat or flightseeing excursion on the Stikine River and into Canada passes dozens of other glaciers and will forever be etched in your memory.

Le Conte Glacier, north of Shakes Glacier is one finger of the massive Stikine Icefields and is in constant motion, with huge chunks of ice breaking off into the channel thick with ice bergs. There’s a reason why the Natives called this “Thunder Bay”: the glacier is never quiet.

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